How do you get more chambers?

[MF|Bickid]

I can't build anything anymore because I don't have enough chambers ("Kammern" in German). Can't find anything to build more. What to do? thx

[Bjørn]

Maybe there will be more features and build / research options in the full game.

I'm not familiar with the source material (hadn't heard of the book until I saw this game was based on it), but it would be nice to be able to build huge, complex ant hills with a lot of things going on

[(V)(;,,;)(V)]

take control of more nests, upgrades work for your whole colony. so in your first nest you could have the chem upgrade that unlocks tier 2 tech, then in another nest build the one that gives tier 3 tech.

[Chubzdoomer]

This aspect of the game is poorly explained and took me a little while to learn. In case you aren't aware, the number of chambers a nest currently has available is displayed inside a white square over the nest icon.

Here for example, this nest that I currently control has 4 available chambers (notice the "4" inside the white square):
https://i.imgur.com/CJ3aJTB.png

As another example, this nest has 7 chambers available:
https://i.imgur.com/TcY58yT.png

Another way to see how many chambers are available is to aim at the nest icon (just like I'm doing in the screenshots above), which brings up the nest info, and then look at the squares underneath the nest's name.

In the very first screenshot above for example, if you look underneath "Bel-O-Kan's Headquarters" you'll see 5 filled/colored squares and 4 white/empty ones. This means the nest has a grand total of 9 chambers--5 of which are used up, and 4 of which are still available.

Furthermore, you can see what exactly those 5 'used up' chambers consist of by studying the list of items below the nest's name and squares. In this case, our Warriors legion is taking up 2 chambers (indicated by the two red squares to the left of "Warriors"), the Cartographers upgrade is taking up 2 chambers, and the Headquarters Chamber is taking up 1 chamber.

Finally, let's say for example you wanted to free up 2 chambers in order to have 6 available rather than 4. One possibility would be to simply destroy the Cartographers upgrade, since it takes up 2. Destroying something is done in much the same way as building it: just navigate to the desired item and then hold the correct key.

[MF|Bickid]

Thanks a lot!

[ZanyScum]

Originally posted by Chubzdoomer:

This aspect of the game is poorly explained and took me a little while to learn. In case you aren't aware, the number of chambers a nest currently has available is displayed inside a white square over the nest icon.
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Thank you SO much!

[ZanyScum]

But I just realized, the original question was not answered :-)

Is there a way to get more chambers and if so how?

[ZanyScum]

Originally posted by ZanyScum:

Originally posted by Chubzdoomer:

This aspect of the game is poorly explained and took me a little while to learn. In case you aren't aware, the number of chambers a nest currently has available is displayed inside a white square over the nest icon.
[...]

Thank you SO much!

OMG, just playing 10 minutes and with the understanding from your post this is much easier to play and know what I am doing.

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much man!

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[GySgt~SPARTA~]

thanks this helped so much :)